

James Black describes Shuichi as an introverted person who doesn't easily get close to people, and further notes that Shuichi has become even more closed off since Akemi's death. Despite that he has American citizenship, he still considers England as his home country. Shuichi gets along well with Conan, who share many personality traits. While usually professional, he often acts independently of the FBI, and even his boss James Black has trouble getting ahold of him. He looks forward to opportunities to hunt the Black Organization down and get revenge for Akemi. He is a skilled and relentless pursuer and detective, qualities which have labeled him the number one enemy of the Black Organization and earned him the nickname " Silver Bullet". Even in personal matters, he remains cool, even detached, from anyone, but his redeeming value is a great sense of loyalty to anyone he knows. Two years later Akemi got killed by the organization to cut loose ends. He broke up with Akemi to protect her and he lost contact with her after the mission to capture Gin failed. The FBI laid a trap hoping to capture Gin at a warehouse where the meeting was supposed to take place, but the Black Organization discovered Akai's true allegiance and Gin never appeared. Shuichi distinguished himself as an agent and two years prior to the current time-line received the codename Rye and was called to work under executive agent Gin. Although at first he was simply using Akemi as a tool, they both fell in love with each other. After he had finished school, he joined the FBI.įive years prior to the current time-line, FBI agent Shuichi Akai infiltrated the Black Organization using the alias Dai Moroboshi as a mole and dated Akemi Miyano, one of their low-ranking members, in order to meet Shiho Miyano, a high-ranked member codenamed Sherry, and use her influence to get into the Black Organization. Shuichi didn't get to meet her until he returned to Japan after seven years in the states, but Shukichi sent him pictures of her. After he left Japan, his younger sister Masumi was born. Shuichi, determined to investigate his missing father's "incident," convinced his mother to let him study in America. In his last message he instructed his pregnant wife Mary and their two sons to hide in Japan. The disappearance of his fatherġ7 years prior to the current timeline, Shuichi's father, Tsutomu Akai, got himself involved in the murder case of Kohji Haneda and Amanda Hughes and disappeared. Later on, his cover in the Black Organization was accidentally blown by his colleague Andre Camel, and when Akemi was killed, he declared her murderer, Gin (with whom he seems to have had some tensions even before his exposure), his personal enemy.

In order to facilitate the latter, and later because he had genuinely developed feelings for Akemi, Shuichi saw himself forced to break up his then on-going relationship with Jodie. He had infiltrated the Black Organization under the name Dai Moroboshi - and the codename "Rye" - as a mole and dated Akemi Miyano, one of their low-ranking members, to feed information to the FBI. His superior is James Black and his partner is Jodie Starling. Shuichi Akai is a British American of Japanese descent, originally from England, and is a member of the American Federal Bureau of Investigation, on special assignment in Japan to capture Gin.

Shuichi as "Dai Moroboshi" during his infiltration of the Black Organization.
